The Fifth Turing Art Award, 2016-2017
One of the objectives of the Turing Foundation is to get more people to enjoy art in Dutch museums. For this purpose, the Turing Foundation launched the Turing Art Award, a donation of €500,000 and a donation of €150,000 awarded every two years for the two best exhibition plans.
This enables the Turing Foundation to make a decisive contribution at an early stage towards exhibitions that would be unlikely to take place without this contribution, with works that might otherwise only be seen in museums abroad. All Dutch museums are eligible to compete for the Turing Awards. More information about the award can be found on the Turing Award website.
Previous awards were won by the Fries Museum (Alma Tadema); the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar (Caesar van Everdingen); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Brancusi, Rosso and Man Ray); the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (Alexander Calder); and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Mike Kelley).

Gardens of Wonder, NTR Dutch public-service broadcaster, 2016-2017
'Gardens of Wonder' is a project focused on presenting 'land art' or 'site-specific art'. It will involve filming a total of six sculpture gardens in various parts of the world, in which nature and (in many cases custom-made) art works reinforce one another. These documentaries ('filmed exhibitions') are being broadcast on the Dutch public television channel NPO 2 and are being shown at a number of museums in the Netherlands, including Museum Beelden aan Zee, Museum Belvédčre and the Drents Museum.

'Rembrandt's Naked Truth', Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 2016
The Rembrandt House Museum is organising an exhibition on drawing nude models in Rembrandt van Rijn's time. Fifty works by Rembrandt, his predecessors, pupils and contemporaries are being showcased to illustrate how nude studies were produced and what the artists' approach was. Nude studies signed by Rembrandt are extremely rare (there are only three) and The Art Institute of Chicago is lending Rembrandt's drawing entitled Female Nude Seated on a Stool (1661) to the Rembrandt House Museum. This unique work perfectly illustrates the artist's method - and is indispensible for this exhibition - but comes with high loan costs.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €19,000 towards this exhibition, earmarked for the loan costs of Female Nude Seated on a Stool (1661) by Rembrandt.

Purchase of 'Talmudic Anatomy' by Meijer de Haan, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2015-2016
The Jewish Historical Museum has been given the opportunity to acquire the painting 'Talmudic Anatomy' (1880) by Meijer de Haan. Popularly known as 'Is the chicken kosher?' this is an allegorical genre painting and one of Meijer de Haan's key works from his Jewish oeuvre. De Haan's life and career as an artist is exemplary of the emancipation of the Jewish community in the 19th century. This potential acquisition has been a long-held ambition of the museum, and it is an exceptional supplement to the museum's collection and to the Collection Netherlands project.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €10,000 towards the purchase of the painting 'Talmudic Anatomy' (1880) by Meijer de Haan.

Buddha, Tropenmuseum Amsterdam en Museum Volkenkunde Leiden, 2016-2017
The National Museum of World Cultures is organising an exhibition on the phenomenon of the Buddha in 2016. A total of 200 top works from the Netherlands and abroad will demonstrate why the Buddha has inspired people for 2,500 years, and how the spread of Buddhism is part of world history. This exhibition will look at Buddhist art from an art historical point perspective, but the objects will also be put in their cultural context.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €50,000 towards this exhibition, which is opening on 11 February 2016.

Hercules Segers, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2016-2017
In 2016 the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam is organising an exhibition on Hercules Segers (1589/90 - 1633/38), one of the most intriguing artists of the Dutch Golden Age. His work is distinguished by its individualistic and timeless character, resulting in him being an inspiration to generations of artists and art lovers. Exhibiting prints of all his etchings and all known paintings is the ideal manner in which to enable a large Dutch and international audience to get acquainted with the originality and imagination of this relatively unknown artist.

The Turing Foundation is contributing €80,000 towards this exhibition, which can be seen between October 2016 and January 2017.

'Barbara Hepworth. Sculpture for a Modern World', Kröller-Müller Museum, 2015-2016
The Kröller-Müller Museum is organising a Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) retrospective, 50 years after the last exhibition of her work in the Netherlands. The exhibition's emphasis is on the prominent role this important British sculptor played in the international art world and on the context in which her work was created and presented. The arrangement is intended to provide an overview from the modest stone sculptures from Hepworth's early days as an artist to the ambitious later bronzes, which are part of some of the large sculpture collections in the world. In addition to the Kröller-Müller Museum's own Hepworth collection, major foreign loans are being brought to Otterlo.

The Turing Foundation contributes €50,000 towards the exhibition, which starts at the end of 2015. The contribution is earmarked for the loan costs.

The Turing Foundation was the main sponsor of this successful project, and donated a total of € 275,000 in the period 2012-2014 (of which € 60,000 in 2014). An additional contribution of € 70,000 in 2015 will cover the transport costs for that year, giving the three museums the time they need to secure future financing of the project.

Munch / Van Gogh expositie, Van Gogh Museum, 2014-2016
The artists Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and Edvard Munch (1863-1944) are both renowned for their emotionally charged paintings and drawings,
their innovative styles, and their troubled lives. Both wanted to modernise art, and to that end they resorted to universal, expressive imagery.
In close collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo, the Van Gogh Museum will be organising the exhibition ‘Munch / Van Gogh’,
highlighting the artistic kinship between the two artists.

The Turing Foundation will be donating € 100,000 to the exhibition, which will run from September 2015 up until and including January 2016.

Acquisition of Jan Asselijn 'The breach of the St. Anthony's Dike', Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2015
Painter Jan Asselijn was an eyewitness of the breach of the St. Anthony's Dike in Amsterdam in 1651. He captured the news in a single image, like a photo journalist would do nowadays; accurate but at the same time dramatic. The height difference between the water on either side of the dike shows how much physical energy was being exerted on the dike before it collapsed, and with how much force the Zuiderzee's water is now surging through the breach towards two villages that were was still beyond Amsterdam at the time (Houtewael and Jaap Hannes), and also towards the then newly reclaimed Diemermeer Lake. Left, next to the breach on the dike, two men in bright red and blue cloaks are deliberating in the midst of the storm; on the other side of the broken dike a man is waving and seems to be shouting something while holding his hat on in the wind. Behind the dike a clear blue sky is already breaking through the cloud.

The painting was only recently 'discovered', after being part of a French family's collection for centuries. The Turing Foundation contributed €100,000 to enable the Rijksmuseum to acquire the painting. Acquisitions are not included in the Turing Foundation's funding policy. A one-off exemption has been made to purchase this particular canvas, which is both of historical and art historical importance.

Restoration of 'Jardin d'émail', Kröller-Müller Museum, 2015-2016
The artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) designed a special object for the Kröller-Müller Museum's garden in 1974: the Jardin d'émail. This artificial (glacial) garden - a grand 20 by 30 metres in size - is a unique work of art, because visitors can walk through it and children can play on it. After 40 years of wear and tear from its many visitors and exposure to the elements, this work of art urgently needs to be restored. In 2015 the Helene Kröller-Müller Fund is starting the first phase of the restoration, in which research will be done into the creative process and the materials used.

Restorations are normally beyond the remit of the Turing Foundation's funding policies. We made a one-off exception for the exceptional artwork Jardin d'émail: the Turing Foundation is contributing €75,000 towards the first phase of the restoration.

'The Oasis of Matisse', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2015
Henri Matisse (1868-1954) was one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century,
and one of the founders of modern art. Matisse was confined to a wheelchair for the final years of his life,
which forced to work in a different way. He became skilled in making colourful collages from paper cut-outs (découpages).
The Stedelijk Museum AMsterdam intends to organise an exhibition of these cut paper collages from April 2015,
centred on the masterpiece 'La perruche et la sirene' from the museum's own collection.
In addition to juxtaposing this work with other cut-outs by the artist, it will demonstrate that the cut-outs are a continuation of earlier work by Matisse.

The Turing Foundation is contributing € 100,000 towards this exhibition.

William Turner exhibition, Museum de Fundatie and Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2015-2016
Museum de Fundatie and Rijksmuseum Twenthe are organising a double exhibition on William Turner (1775 - 1851), the most important English Romantic painter. Turner is renowned as a painter who was far ahead of his time, for his experimental painting techniques and his use of light and colour. A total of more than thirty of Turner's works are coming to the Netherlands, and will be exhibited with approximately sixty works by other artists.

Its donation of €100,000 makes the Turing Foundation the first patron of the exhibition, which will be on display from 5 September 2015 to 4 January 2016.

William Turner's 'Clouds and Water', collection Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle

IDFA 2014: The Female Gaze, Amsterdam, 2014
Since the first edition in 1988, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has developed into the most important documentary film festival in the world. From the over 3,500 international documentaries that are published each year, 300 are selected for the festival, giving an overview of the documentaries being made in the world. In 2014 the festival is organising a themed programme on the role of women in the documentary, entitled 'The Female Gaze'. Fifteen leading international female directors have selected documentaries and will explain their selection during the festival. In addition, the results of research on the topic will be presented and debates have been organised.

Mark Rothko, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, 2014-2015
In autumn of 2014, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will be organising an exhibition about abstract artist Mark Rothko (1903-1970).
It will be the first retrospective of the influential artist in the Netherlands in forty years.
In order to realise the exhibition, the museum will be working closely with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which has the largest collection of Rothko works in the world.

The Fourth Turing Art Award, 2015
One of the goals of the Turing Foundation is to have more people enjoy the fine arts in Dutch museums. Reason for the foundation to launch the Turing Grant:
two donations of € 500,000 and € 150,000 awarded biannually to the two very best exhibition plans.
With the grant, the Turing Foundation can make an early and crucial contribution to exhibitions that may otherwise never be realised,
involving works of art that are normally on display in museums abroad only. All Dutch museums are free to compete for the Turing Grant.
For more information on the Grant, visit the Turing Grant website.

'Geisha', National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, 2014-2015
The national Museum of Ethnology - owner of the largest collection of nineteenth-century Japanese art outside of Japan - is organising an exhibition on the number-one Japanese icon: the geisha. Her white face, red lips, and precious kimono make her the stereotype of Japanese beauty. The world of the geisha has been veiled in mystery and secrecy, which was reason for the National museum of Ethnology to delve into the history, position and role of the geisha in Japanese society.

The Turing Foundation will contribute € 50,000 for the loan costs involved in the exhibition, which will be on display in Leiden from October 2014 - April 2015.

Jackson Pollock's 'Ocean Greyness' (1953) loan, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen, 2014
From April 4, 2014, the CoBrA Museum in Amstelveen will be exhibiting some fifty works that were part of the opening exhibition of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City back in 1959. The exhibition is entitled 'Art of Another Kind' and presents works by representatives of the international abstract movement including Rothko, Pollock, De Kooning, and CoBrA artists Alenchincky, Appel, and Jorn.

The Turing Foundation will contribute € 25,000 to get Jackson Pollock's extraordinary painting 'Ocean Greyness' from 1953 to the Netherlands.

Main supporter 'Brancusi,Rosso en Man Ray', Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, 2014
One of Turing Foundation's goals is to have more people enjoy the fine arts in Dutch museums.
To that end, the Turing Foundation introduced the Turing Grant in December 2008, which is a € 450,000
donation that will be granted once every two years to one single exhibition. In doing so, the Turing
Foundation can make a decisive contribution to exhibitions that may not be realized without it, and put
on display works of art that would otherwise only be shown abroad. All Dutch museums can compete for the
Turing Art Award. For more information on the grant, please visit the
Turing Art Award website.

Turing Museum Bus - Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2011-2014
For school and schoolteachers, free, comfortable and safe transport is the key factor in their decision to take their pupils to visit museums. For the Turing Foundation, this was reason for the financing of the first Turing Museum Bus in Rotterdam in 2008.

Starting in 2012, the three largest museums at the Amsterdam Museum Square
(Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum and Van Gogh Museum) want to offer school children from the Amsterdam suburbs a joint programme of the highlights of their collections as well. After all, teachers of these schools, too, consider transport to be the one thing that prevents them from taking their pupils to see a museum. By means of the Turing Museum Square Bus, the three museums want to welcome 25,000 children from grades 6-8 in three years' time (approximately 20% of all school children within a 60-km radius from Amsterdam). For many, it will be their first-ever museum visit.

In total, the Turing Foundation will donate € 275,000 for the startup and transportation costs (€ 60.000 in 2014).

Museum Bus The Hague, 2013-2014
Since 2009, SGPHM has been transporting 25,000 primary school children to and from 19 museums and cultural heritage institutions in The Hague every year. At the museums the pupils take classes from The Culture Menu that tie in with the material they are presented with at school. SGPHM and The Culture Menu were having trouble arranging the finances because of government cuts. Thanks to contributions by Fonds 1818 and the Turing Foundation, transport for the 2013-2014 school year is now warranted.

The Turing Foundation will be contributing € 50,000 towards the bus transportation of primary school children to 19 museums and cultural heritage institutions in The Hague in the 2013-2014 school year.

Free transport to Boijmans van Beuningen and Chabot museums, 2011-2014
For schools, free, comfortable and safe transport is a major factor in their decision to
take their students to visit museums. Since October 1, 2008,
the Turing Foundation has therefore been financing a
Turing Museum Bus
that takes children from the Rotterdam area to and from the
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the
Chabot Museum for free. The plan is to provide museum transport for 10,000 children every year.

In a previous phase, the Turing Foundation already invested € 120,000 in the project,
and now donates € 40,000 to keep the bus driving until 2014.

Main patron Henri Fantin-Latour exposition, Gouda Museum, 2013-2014
Museum Gouda will be hosting the first-ever solo exhibition of Fantin-Latour in the Netherlands, entitled Dromen op Doek (Canvas Dreams).
With 60 works, including loans from France (e.g. Musée d'Orsay) and Belgium,
the museum wants to present an overview of the artist’s life and work. Contributing € 50,000, the Turing Foundation is main patron of the exhibition that opens October 26, 2013.

Hundertwasser and Japan exhibition, Cobra Museum, 2013-2014
The Cobra Museum has been offered the unique opportunity to take over an exhibition displaying the early works of the Austrian artist Hundertwasser (1928-2000) from the
Belvedere Museum
in Vienna. Apart from the influence of Japanese art and Eastern philosophy, the exhibition also focuses on the influence the Parisian, Italian, and German avant-garde
of the 50s have had on his works.
Moreover, the Cobra Museum wants to prove there’s a connection between Hundertwasser and the Cobra artists Constant, Corneille, and Tajiri.

The Turing Foundation will be contributing € 50,000 to the exhibition, which opens 15 August 2013.

Exhibition Old Drawings, New Names, Rembrandt House Museum, 2013-2014
In 2014, the Rembrandt House Museum will be hosting an exhibition of 17th-century drawings by Rembrandt, his apprentices and contemporaries. The museum will be showing drawings that include works formerly considered Rembrandt’s, which have been credited to other painters in recent decades. Based on works by Rembrandt, some of his apprentices, and contemporaries like Ferdinand Bol, Govert Flinck, and Arent de Gelder, the exhibition provides insight into the study of 17th-century drawing.

The Turing Foundation will be supporting the exhibition with € 25,000.

Main patron Marino Marini tentoonstelling, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, 2013-2014
Mario Marini is one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century. Few people know he was also a painter en a drawer. The exhibition 'Mario Marino - painter, drawer, sculptor' focuses on the major importance of Marini's paintings and drawings. Not just by looking at his trailblazing sculptures, which wouldn't have been conceivable if not for his experiments with lines and colour, but mostly as works in their own right that are a definite part of his artistic vision. The exhibition shows 30 sculptures and 120 paintings and drawings, and has been realized in collaboration with the Fondazione Marino Marini in Pistoia, and the Museo Marino Marini in Florence.

With a € 50,000 contribution, the Turing Foundation is the main patron of the exhibition,
which can be visited from September 29, 2013, up to and including March 16, 2014.

Exposition 'Les Nabis: Gaugin, Bonnard, Denis, Prophets of the Avant-Garde', Hermitage Amsterdam, 2013-2014
From September 14, 2013 through February 28, 2014, the Hermitage will host an exhibition on 'Les Nabis', a group of French artists from around 1900 who were in search of a new way of painting. With their 'flat' paintings, well-defined lines and unmixed colours, they were considered the prophets ('Nabis' is Hebrew for prophet) of abstract art. In light of the exhibition, Ivan Morozov's Music Room and the paintings especially designed for the room, Maurice Denis' The Story of Psyche', will be reconstructed.

In total, the Turing Foundation will be donating € 90,000 to the exhibition, allowing for the reconstruction of the Music Salon.

Exhibition 'Lissitzky-Kabakov. Dromen en Leven', Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, 2012-2013
El Lissitzky (1890-1941) was one of the defining artists of the Russian avant-garde in the early 20th century
as well as a representative of Suprematism. Under the authority of the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven,
the artist couple Ilja (1933) and Emilia (1945) Kabakov will act as guest curators for an exhibition in which
their current work is confronted with Lissitzky's.

The Turing Foundation will contribute € 50,000 to the exhibition 'Lissitzky-Kabakov. Dromen en Leven' (Dream and Live),
which will be on display from December 2012 until April 2013.

Main patron Mike Kelley, a retrospective, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2009-2013
The exhibition concept
Mike Kelley, A Retrospective 1973 - 2010,
submitted by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,
has won the Turing Art Award 2009-2010.
The Turing Art Award is a € 450,000 donation to be awarded biennially to a Dutch museum
for an exceptional exhibition concept.
Sixteen museums submitted concepts. The Mike Kelley retrospective
was deemed best in quality, originality, and concept.

Mike Kelley is regarded as one of the most important artists
to enter the art scene since the seventies.
His work is technically varied, complex in both form and content,
and has strong psychical and emotional undertones.
A complete solo exhibition of this Californian artist has never before been organised in the Netherlands.
It promises to become a both fascinating and inspirational event, due to the work itself
as well as to the way it will be presented - hopefully a sign of the new policy of the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum.
The exhibition can be expected to make a large new audience to become interested in modern art.

Main patron Paula Modersohn-Becker ‘Ein Wunderland, Ein Götterland’, Museum Belvedere, 2012-2013
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) is a German painter who's regarded as one of the main representatives of early expressionism.
Modersohn-Becker used to live in the artistic community of Worpswede, north of Bremen, and this agricultural village has played
an important role in her work. Museum Belvedere sees a clear connection between the Worpswede and Heerenveen scenery,
and organizes an extraordinary exhibition on this artist in the spring of 2013.
The focus of the exhibit will be on her landscapes and figure pieces.

With a € 35,000 donation, the Turing Foundation will be the main patron of this exhibition.

The Third Turing Art Award, 2013-2014
One of Turing Foundation's goals is to have more people enjoy the fine arts in Dutch museums.
To that end, the Turing Foundation introduced the Turing Grant in December 2008, which is a € 450,000
donation that will be granted once every two years to one single exhibition. In doing so, the Turing
Foundation can make a decisive contribution to exhibitions that may not be realized without it, and put
on display works of art that would otherwise only be shown abroad. All Dutch museums can compete for the
Turing Art Award. For more information on the grant, please visit the
Turing Art Award website.

The first Turing Art Award was presented to the opening exhibition of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam about
Mike Kelly.
The second Turing Art Award was presented to the Alexander Calder exposition in The Hague.

Main patron Diane Arbus - A Retrospective, FOAM Amsterdam, 2010-2013
Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most fascinating and important photographers of the second
half of the 20th century. Never before have The Netherlands exhibited an extensive retrospective
of her work and it is unlikely to happen again anytime soon. It is especially the choice and
quality of the works on display (mainly vintage prints, printed by the artist herself) that give
the exhibition its extraordinary quality. This FOAM project has been nominated with
the Turing Art Award 2009.

With a € 100,000 patronage, the Turing Foundation is the main patron of the exhibition,
enabling FOAM to enter into a contract to realise this ambitious project.
Diane Arbus - A retrospective will be on display from 25 October 2012 - 13 January 2013 in FOAM.

Rafael Exposition, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2012-2013
Never before did the Netherlands see an exhibition on Rafael (Urbino 1483-1530 Rome), one of Europe's most influential artists. The Teylers Museum is the only Dutch museum owning a substantial collection of Rafael drawings. This collection, along with the collection of drawings of the Albertina Museum in Vienna, will be on display. It's the first time the drawings are reunited since they left Rafael's renowned studio. The exhibition is scheduled to open in September 2012.

The Turing Foundation will be donating € 65,000, which makes it the first financer as well as the main patron of the project.

Exhibition The Road to Van Eyck, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 2012-2013
Johannes van Eyck (1390-1440) has decisively reinvented painting in Northern Europe. He's been named the father of oil painting.
In the exhibition The Road to Van Eyck. In this exhibition in collaboration with the
Gemäldegalerie
van het Staatliche Museum
in Berlin, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen shows, based on scientific research, that development towards the works of
Van Eyck can be interpreted through panel paintings, miniatures, precious metal works, sculptures and tapestries from the era.
The exhibition concludes with a few of the rare works of Van Eyck (1390-1441).
The project was nominated for the
Turing Art Award 2011.

The Turing Foundation is the first benefactor to donate € 100,000 to the project, which can be visited in Rotterdam from October 2012 - January 2013.

Main patron Alexander Calder, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, 2011-2012
In 2008, the Turing Foundation launched the Turing Art Award, a € 450,000 donation
presented biannually to the very best exhibition plan of a Dutch museum.
The grant allows the Turing Foundation to make a crucial contribution to exhibitions at a very early stage,
exhibitions that would probably not be realized without this grant, displaying works that can usually only
be admired in foreign museums.

Alexander Calder - The Great Discovery, Gemeentemuseum The Hague, 2012

Main supporter, Rodin Erotique, Singer Museum Laren, 2011-2013
With this exhibition, the Singer Museum will be organizing the first-ever expo of the erotic works of Auguste Rodin in the Netherlands. All drawings will come from the collection of Musée Rodin in Paris. Rodin's first paintings directly preceded and inspired artists the likes of Klimt, Schiele, Matisse and Picasso, whose works will also be on display in this exhibition.

Supporter of 'Meer Licht' (More Light), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, 2011-2012
Museum De Fundatie is the only museum in the Netherlands that has a William Turner
painting in its collection. The canvas will serve as the starting point for a contemporary
art exhibition about the sublime in art. The exhibition will include works by James Turrell,
Wolfgang Tilmans, David Claerbout, and Olaf Eliasson.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 25,000 to this exhibition,
which will be on display in Zwolle from October 2 to January 6, 2012.

William Turner's 'Clouds and Water', collection Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle

'Van Oostsanen, de Ware Jacob', Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, 2011-2014
In 2014 it will have been 500 years since Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen enjoyed the high point of his career.
This exhibition is designed as a triptych and will be on display at three locations:
the Amsterdam Museum,
the Great St. Laurens Church in Alkmaar
and the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar.
Combined, the three locations will provide a complete overview of the works of Van Oostsanen
that's never been seen before. The project was nominated for the
Turing Art Award 2011.

'Het Geheim van de Slang' (The Secret of the Snake), Afrika Museum, 2011-2012
The Afrika Museum will be organising an intercultural exhibition on the appearance of a universal animal symbol, from the very first prehistoric art of humankind in Africa to contemporary art in Africa, America and Europe today: the snake. Including contemporary artistic masters such as Kiefer and Oppenheimer. The project was nominated for the Turing Art Award 2011.

Main patron Paul Klee exhibition, CoBrA Museum Amstelveen, 2010-2012
The Cobra Museum organises an exhibition on the much-loved artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) and his relation to the CoBrA art movement's artworks. The exhibition will be set up with the help of the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Danish Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The collective exhibition will consist of a minimum of 90 of Klee's works and around 60 of the Louisiana Museum and the Cobra Museum's masterpieces by artists such as Constant, Jacobsen, Pedersen, Jorn and Appel.

With a € 75,000 donation, the Turing Foundation is this exhibition's main patron.

Main patron 'Pop Art in Western Europe', Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, 2011-2013
Pop Art is the core of the collection of the Valkhof Museum,
which makes the museum the ideal place to demonstrate an overview of Pop Art in Europe,
including works from Niki de Saint Phalle, Christo, Panamarenko, Woody van Amen,
Gehrard Richter, Wim T. Schippers en Sigmar Polke.
Many works originate from the major European museums will be shown in the Netherlands for
the first time. By being the first fund to support this exhibition, the Turing Foundation
hopes to be the accelerator in realizing this project.

The Turing Foundation supports Pop Art in Western Europe with € 50,000

Main patron Bram and Geer van Velde, Museum Belvédčre, Friesland, 2010-2011
The Belvédčre Museum is preparing an exhibition on the work of artists and brothers Bram and Geer van Velde. The focus of the exhibition will be on the development phase of both artists. It shows how the two brothers have inspired and influenced each other, at the same time drawing on the achievements of modern art surrounding them, and eventually developing their very own modes and styles. The exhibition will feature paintings and works on paper, including loans from private collections in the Netherlands and abroad and from Dutch and international museums.

The Turing Foundation donated € 11,800 towards this exhibition, which is the remainder of an earlier donation to the Belvédčre Museum.

Turing Car for the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum and the Chabot Museum 2008-2010
Free of charge, comfortable and safe transport turns out to be the primary factor to break down the barriers for schools
to take their children on a visit to a museum. The Turing Foundation will therefore finance a special 'Turing Car'
until 2010, that will transport children from Rotterdam and surroundings to and
from the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the
Chabot Museum free of charge.
This project has the ambition to ultimately have each pupil from each primary school in the Rotterdam region go to these museums at least once in their school career.

The Turing Foundation initiated this project in 2007 and has invested € 140,000 into it until 2010.

Main patron Louise Bourgeois - Double Sexus, Den Haag Municipal Museum, 2010-2011
Louise Bourgeois (1911) is regarded as one of the most important artists still alive today. She was recently honoured with large-scale exhibitions in Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou. The Den Haag Municipal Museum, in association with the Berlin National Museum, wants to confront her work with that of German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975). It was only in 2006 that the Centre Pompidou did an extensive retrospective of Bellmer. Both artists find their origin in the surrealist tradition, their work displaying a search for identity, the relationship between men and women and a fascination for the human body. This exhibition is the first to show works of these two international artists in the Netherlands.

With a € 50,000 donation, the Turing Foundation will be the exhibition's main patron. Double Sexus will be on display from 11 September 2010 until 16 January 2011 in the Den Haag Municipal Museum.

Main patron Dance from Matisse, Hermitage, Amsterdam, 2010
In Spring 2010, the Amsterdam Hermitage organises an exhibition of 75 master pieces by artists like Picasso, Kandinsky, Van Dongen and Matisse. This exhibition presents a beautiful overview of modernism, featuring many works of art that have not been exhibited before in the Netherlands. The Turing Foundation specifically contributes to the loan of one masterpiece in this exhibition that is hardly ever brought to other museums.

By donating € 100,000, the Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of this exhibition,
which will run from March to September 2010.
For the first time in history, Matisse's Dance
is brought to The Netherlands.

Main patron The Large Eyes of Kees van Dongen, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, 2010-2011
Starting in September 2010,
the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum will present an overview of the works of painter
Kees van Dongen (1877-1968). This exhibition will focus on the development of Van Dongen's
career as a painter and the influence his Paris canvases had on his entire work. Several
unique loans will be brought to the Netherlands especially for this project.
Apart from paintings, approximately 25 drawings will be on display too.

By donating € 75,000, the Turing Foundation will be the main contributor to this exhibition.

Illusion and Reality - Van Gogh Museum, 2009-2011
On 8 October 2010 an exhibition of Naturalist painting will be opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam,
presenting huge paintings from collections all over the world. Never before has Naturalism been showcased on such a
scale in the Netherlands. The way it is combined with photography and film from that period is most appropriate.
The exhibition heralds a reassessment and rediscovery of these paintings, which were considered masterpieces in
their time. It will be a unique and attractive exhibition that appeals to a large audience, giving a fine portrait
of the era. In May 2009 this project was nominated for the Turing Award 2009.

The Turing Foundation donates € 100,000 towards Illusion and Reality;
from 8 October 2010 to 16 January 2011 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Vincent van Gogh: the artist and his letters, 2008-2010
Vincent van Gogh is one of the most important artists of all times.
Apart from his many exceptional paintings and drawings, he also left behind one of
the most fascinating artist's correspondences we know of.
After years of intensive research the
Van Gogh Museum publishes
Vincent van Gogh's letters in a 'definitive version': 2,240 pages in 6 bound volumes,
with high-quality reproductions of the originals and illustrations of all 2,000 works
of art Vincent van Gogh referred to in his letters - whether these be his own works or the works of others.
Furthermore, as of 9 October 2009 the Van Gogh Museum will organise an exhibition
around the letters and the works
the letters refer to. And a new scientific website
gives access to the results of the project.

The Turing Foundation contributes
€ 200,000 to the publication of the letters,
avaialble as of 9 October 2009.

Main patron Theo van Doesburg and the Avant-Garde, de Lakenhal, Leiden, 2009-2010
Theo van Doesburg still inspires many contemporary artists. The exhibition Constructing a New World: Theo van Doesburg and the Avant-Garde in De Lakenhal shows his perception and his time. Apart from hundreds of works by Van Doesburg himself, art works are shown by more than 70 contemporaries who directly or indirectly influenced him, like Mondriaan, Moholy-Nagy, Schwitters and Lissitzky. Half of the more than 400 art works in total have never been shown before in the Netherlands.

By donating € 85,000, the Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of this exhibition, which will be on display in Leiden from 16 October 2009 until 3 January 2010. In January 2010 it will travel on to partner museum Tate Modern in London.

Exhibition "Made in Holland", Mauritshuis, The Hague, 2009-2011
In the Autumn of 2010 the Mauritshuis organises an exhibition of 44 Dutch masterworks from the Golden Age that are part of an American private collection. The paintings will include works by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jan Lievens, Adriaen Backer, and Aelbert Cuyp. The works are all in striking good condition and represent a large variety of genres, such as portraits, animals, so-called 'Italianists' (painters inspired by the Italian landscape) and marine art. For the first time ever a large selection of these painting will be on show in Europe.

Exhibition 'Art and Games', Kortenhoef, 2009
The Kunst aan de Dijk Foundation has been organising exhibitions of Dutch painters for over 25 years. The foundation will exhibit a number of paintings by, among others, Toorop, Sluyters, and Israels, in which children's games are the main theme. The exhibition mainly shows works from private collections that are usually closed to large audiences.

The Turing Foundation is the main patron of the exhibition, which will run in the Oude School in Kortenhoef from 6 to 28 June 2009.

Corneille, African Children, ca. 1957, litho

Main patron Anton Mauve exhibitions, Singer Museum, Laren and Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 2009-2010
In the Autumn of 2009 The Singer Museum in Laren and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem will simultaneously present a special exhibition of the popularly acclaimed painter Anton Mauve (1838-1888).

The Haarlem exhibition will focus on the development of Mauve's artistry from student to master, his religious background and the relationship between Mauve and Van Gogh.

In the Laren exhibition the emphasis will be on Mauve's influence on the genesis of the so-called "Laren School of Painting" and on realising a retrospective of a number of "American Mauves": works by Mauve that almost immediately after their creation were sold to the USA and became part of private collections.

By contributing a total sum of € 60,000 the Turing Foundation will act as the main patron of both exhibitions, which together will offer the largest retrospective ever of Mauve in the Netherlands.

Main patron Meijer de Haan retrospective, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2009-2010
From 11 October 2009 the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam will present a generous retrospective of the 19th-century artist Meijer de Haan. For the first time in 125 years this exhibition will offer all of Meijer de Haan's works kept in private collections from all over the world as well as from Dutch, French, and American Museums. Apart from Meijer de Haan's oeuvre the exhibition will show works by contemporaries and friends such as Gauguin, Roy, Schuffenecker, Isaacson, Baruch de Laguna and Pothuis.

By contributing € 50,000 the Turing Foundation will act as the main patron of the exhibition, which will run from 13 October 2009 to 24 January 2010.

The First Turing Art Award, 2009
One of the aims of the Turing Foundation is to enable a greater number of people to enjoy art in Dutch museums. This is why in December 2008 the Turing Foundation initiated the Turing Art Award, a € 450,000 donation to be presented biennially to a single exhibition. In this way the Turing Foundation is able to offer key advance contributions to exhibitions that would otherwise be unlikely to be staged, with works of art that would otherwise only be on view in museums abroad. All Dutch Museums may compete for the new Turing Art Award.
For more information, see the Turing Art Award Website.

Main patron Paris Central, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen, 2008-2010
The Cobra Movement was established in 1948 in Paris, the capital of European art of that time. In those years, the most important Cobra artists Appel and Jorn became part of a larger European network of (abstract) artists who worked according to the rules of the expressionist school. They are the artists of the post-war 'École de Paris'. In recent years, they have attracted a lot of renewed attention.

The CoBrA Museum continuously brings the works of Cobra artists, their contemporaries and 'kindred spirits' to the notice. In 2009, the museum organises the special exhibition Paris Central, which will focus on the School of Paris and will feature paintings by artists such as Bram and Geer van Velde, Jean Dubuffet and Henri Michaux. Many works originate from leading private and foreign collections.

By donating € 100,000, the Turing Foundation is the main patron of the exhibition Paris Central, which can be visited from September 2009 until January 2010 in the CoBrA Museum.

Main patron 'Jan Lievens - A Dutch Master Rediscovered', Rembrandthuis Amsterdam, 2008-2009
Jan Lievens was a prodigy child who lived in the seventeenth century. He established himself as an independent master painter when he was only ten years old. His painting greatly influenced the work of Rembrandt. Due to a collaboration with two prestigious American partners (the Washington National Gallery and the Milwaukee Museum of Fine Art), the Rembrandthuis has succeeded in bringing 90 loans from all over the world to the Netherlands for this exhibition. One third of the objects shown in this special exhibition has never before been shown in the Netherlands.

As its main contributor, the Turing Foundation donates € 60,000 to the exhibition Jan Lievens (1607-1674) - A Dutch Master Rediscovered. The exhibition will be held from May 17 to August 9, 2009 at the Amsterdam Rembrandthuis.

Main patron Elizabeth Peyton exhibition, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, 2008-2010
The Bonnefanten Museum celebrates its 125th anniversary with several special exhibitions, such as a retrospective on contemporary painter Elizabeth Peyton. Her work has never before been shown in the Netherlands. The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York organises this first comprehensive survey of Peyton's oeuvre. 85 of her paintings can be seen in the Bonnefanten Museum from October 20, 2009 to March 21, 2010.

Since the opportunity of this exhibition of high quality would otherwise have passed the Netherlands, the Turing Foundation as a main sponsor pays the full project costs of € 75,000.

Main patron of The Secret of Silence, Roermond, 2008-2009
Stichting De Roermondse Kartuizers (The Carthusians of Roermond Foundation) organises the exhibition 'Het Geheim van de Stilte -De besloten wereld van de Roermondse Kartuizers' (The Secret of Silence - The Hidden World of the Carthusians of Roermond) in the Carthusian Bethlehem Cloister of Roermond. The exhibition will feature panels by many early sixteenth and eighteenth century artists, originating from cities such as Aachen, Grenada, Bruges and Liege. Some of the works have never been displayed in the Netherlands before. Even in Spain and Italy painters immortalized how monks of the Bethlehem Cloister were murdered by the troops of William of Orange.

A donation of € 35,000 makes the Turing Foundation the main patron of this very special exhibition, which will be held from March 27 until June 21, 2009.

The Secret of Silence - Roermondse Kartuizers

Main patron Retrospective Exhibition Jan van Scorel, Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2008-2009
From 21 March to 28 June 2009, the Centraal Museum of Utrecht organises a major retrospective exhibition entitled Jan van Scorel and Utrecht painting. Jan van Scorel (1495-1562) was one of the first Dutch painters to practice the new Renaissance style of painting.

The Turing Foundation is its main sponsor, donating € 80,000 to this special exhibition.

Contemporary Art Exhibition: Not Normal, Beurs van Berlage, 2008-2010
From 11 December 2009 (to 7 March 2010) the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam hosts the manifestation Niet Normaal • Difference on Display. Next to games, movies and documentaries, Not Normal displays many paintings by painters such as Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois, Luc Tuymans, Marc Quinn and Erik van Lieshout. Many of the works shown have not been accessible to Dutch audiences before. The exhibition is a cooperation with the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden and the Wellcome Trust in London.

The Turing Foundation contributes € 100,000 to this exhibition, which will be on display from 11 December 2009 to 7 March 2010.

The 'Zwoele Zomeravonden' of the Kröller-Müller Museum, 2008
The Kröller-Müller Museum is famous for its collection (Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Mondriaan) and its sculpture garden. Since 2006, the museum organises innovative music and theatre performances on Summer evenings, meant to increase the interest in the collection and to introduce it to new audiences.

As its main patron, the Turing Foundation will donate € 30,000 to the Zwoele Zomeravonden (Sultry Summer Evenings) in 2008.

Alfred Schaffer in the new Kröller-Müller Amphitheater (Zwoele Zomeravond 7-7-2007)

Main patron of 'Back to Zeeland', Zeeuws Museum, 2007-2008
The Zeeuws Museum was reopened in 2007 after a radical rebuilding and renovation campaign. The museum displays the Zeeland identity and heritage through its own collection in a modern design and in an international context. The first large Summer exhibition at this renewed museum, Terug Naar Zeeland (May to September 2008), presents important showpieces from cities such as Copenhagen and Antwerp, manufactured in Zeeland in the 16th and 17th centuries, which are now reunited in Zeeland for the first time in 150 years.

By contributing € 65,000, the Turing Foundation is the main patron of the exhibition Terug Naar Zeeland.

Portrait of an emissary from the kingdom of Congo, probably Don Miguel de Castro, ca 1645, attributed to Albert Eckhout.

Main patron Dutch Primitives: Painters from the Late Middle Ages, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2007-2008
For the first time in over fifty years, there will be an exhibition on the origin of Dutch painting in the county of Holland of that day. The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen shows how a very typical and individual style of painting developed in Holland around 1500.

Fragile, 500 year old panels are rarely loaned, but for this unique exhibition, loans from all over the world will come to Rotterdam: from the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery in London, the Staatlichen Museen in Berlin, the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the Metropolitan Museum of New York, but also from private collections and of course from the collection of the Boijmans museum itself.

"Dutch Primitives: Painters from the Late Middle Ages" will run from February to May 2008 at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. As its main sponsor, the Turing Foundation donates € 100,000 to the exhibition.

Main patron Unknown Modern Masterpieces from Moscow, Jewish Historical Museum, 2007-2008
The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam presents unknown masterpieces by Russian-Jewish artists from the period 1910-1940. The works, forming part of the collections of the world-famous Tretjakov Gallery and the Bachroesjin Theatre Museum in Moscow, are displayed in the Netherlands for the very first time. The paintings represent the styles of both the avant-garde and social realism. Works will be shown by painters including Issak Brodsky, El Lissitzky, Ilya Chashnik and Solomon Nikritin.

By contributing € 60,000, the Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of the exhibition (19 October to 10 February 2008).

Robert Falk, Portrait of a Woman in a Red Dress, 1918. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Main patron 'The De Bray Family', Frans Hals Museum, 2007-2008
In 2008, the Frans Hals Museum of Haarlem is setting up a special exhibition on the painters of the seventeenth century De Bray family, in cooperation with the London Dulwich Picture Gallery. During the exhibition (2 February to 21 June 2008), loans from famous museums in Paris, Washington, Edinburgh, Warsaw and Los Angeles will be on display.

The Turing Foundation is the main sponsor of 'The De Bray Family' exhibition, donating € 45,000.

Extension opening hours Museum Belvédčre 2007-2009
Museum Belvédčre is the first museum for modern and contemporary art in Friesland. The museum is located in Museumpark Landgoed Oranjewoud. Its permanent collection consists of works by important Frisian painters, painters who have lived in Friesland and works by partners in style from home and abroad. Apart from that, half of the museum is dedicated to changing exhibitions.

A donation by the Turing Foundation (€ 17,000) enables the museum to open longer twice a week, exclusively for young people.